English Dictionary

make hay

動詞

直訳 慣用表現

(literally) To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed. / (idiomatic) To take advantage of an opportunity.

日本語の意味

草を刈って干し草にする、家畜の飼料を作るために草を収穫する。 / （比喩的に）好機を逃さずに利用する、機会を活かす。

Every summer, our neighbors make hay in the field behind the barn.

夏ごとに、私たちの隣人は納屋の裏の畑で家畜の飼料にするために草を刈って干し草にします。

意味（1）

(literally) To cut grass to turn into hay for animal feed.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) To take advantage of an opportunity.

I suggested that this was a mistake, particularly at a time of national crisis on the railways, because it opened the way for critics of the railway to make hay - which Institute of Economic Affairs Director Richard Wellings duly did in an anti-rail article in the Daily Telegraph.

makes hay （ present singular third-person ）

making hay （ participle present ）

made hay （ participle past ）

made hay （ past ）